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Mysterious Creature Haunting Mississippi Just Days Before Halloween!

This is the question residents of the Picayune community in Mississippi were asking about a hairless, wolf-like creature lurking around.

“If a zombie had a dog, it would look like that,” Jennifer Whitfield toldWLOX-TV.

“I kept looking up hairless coyote, and it kept saying Chupacabra,” Amanda Denton told WLOX. “We have been running back and forth to the car, our cars, because we didn’t want the Chupacabra to get us,” Denton said. Her husband, Jonathan, said that animal control had not picked it up, and they had no idea what kind of beast it was.

But the Denton’s neighbors, the Cooper's, think they know. “We came out here and I could see it running over there and I was like ‘Look, it’s over there, Daddy’ and he was like ‘That is not a Coyote, that’s a squatch dog.’ Because he’s obsessed with watching, finding Bigfoot,” Caroline Cooper said.

That’s when the Cooper's called David Burnette and Caleb Miller, from the state’s Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks, for, they said, “backup.”

“Way they described it to me, it’s a coyote,” Burnette told WLOX. He added that the coyote was too weak to hunt on its own, so it ate pet food, garbage, and drank from a local water source to survive.

According to WLOX, the legend of "El Chupacabra" dates back to the 1970s. The term literally translates to "goat-sucker," because the creature is believed to have sucked the blood of goats.

“They need to be aware just to leave it alone and stay away from ‘em,” Miller said.

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It is a mangy starving coyote. Someone should shoot the poor thing and put it out of its' misery. Mange kills when untreated. Which is probably why it is starving to death. Euthanizing it would be the most humane thing to do !

The 'creature' is a xoloitzcuintle (Mexican hairless) canine. They are an ancient breed and registered with the Mexican, American and many other national Kennel Clubs. The poor dog is hungry, possible starving, and does not deserve to be treated in a way that could encourage someone to harm or kill it. Lost, strayed or stolen it deserves some food and a home.

PLEASE give the location of this dog/coyote so a CONFIRMED rescue can come to his aid. We have Rescues in Mississippi as well as Louisiana who can help this poor, starving creature. We will promise to be respectful of your ways and harm no animal...just give aid and rescue to this pour soul. PLEASE ALLOW a certified rescue to perform this mercy.
My name is Lou Taylor my email if taylormadetwo@cox.net. It looks as though time is if the essence. PLEASE LET US HELP

It's not a monster or a coyote. It is a Mexican Hairless dog called a Xoloitzcuintle. The reason it is running to cars is because this poor dog has been someone's pet. It looks like it is emaciated and needs to be fed badly. Please someone have pity on this poor dog and help it.

Is it really that hard to figure out that the animal in the pics in this article is a poor dog with either mange or a gone sideways thyroid. Really people? This poor thing needs to be life trapped and helped or humanely put down to end it's suffering.